CSER W3200y Migration, Gender, and Race in the Global Americas 3 pts.Not offered in 2009-2010. This course will examine migration in the contemporary Americas. A defining characteristic of the current global moment, migration brings together individuals from different national, class, racial, and/or ethnic backgrounds. As such, it helps to fashion new subjectivities and to catalyze broader social transformations�affecting not just those who migrate and those who remain behind, but also those in receiving communities. Honing in on gender and race, the class will explore these broad-scale changes. Understood as �natural� and �enduring,� gender and race remain key sites for the production of individuals, as well as of the social order. Certainly, existing ideologies and inequalities of race and gender shape migration; yet, migration simultaneously destabilizes these seemingly fixed categories, compelling a re-imagining of masculinity and femininity, their associations with different types of sexualities, and the definition of family. These disruptions also prompt a reworking of race and ethnicity, altering local, national, and global regimes of value. The course will analyze these processes through a focus on transnational and translocal labor migrations, the experiences of the second generation, transnational adoption, domestic service, and sex tourism.